How do you all play music?

[beardad]

I really feel like I'm missing something fundamental.

My music/entertainment listening falls roughly into these categories:

Good:
- Podcasts (40%) - Works fine via bluetooth and I fast-forward with the upper-right display.

Bad:
- Specific song/album/artist/podcast (20%) - Alexa got this right almost every time. Hey Lucid is is 1 out of 10. Alternative, as far as I can tell, is to type into search interface.
- Radio (20%) - No easy way to switch between favorites other than look down at the screen.
- News/weather (20%) - The first thing I did every morning since I've had my Lucid was said, "Alexa, news brief". Hey Lucid tells me to tune into a local radio station.

I can use Alexa on my phone but it tends to stop when my screen sleeps.

I read the thread about ending Alexa and how most of you all thought it was for the better.

What is the better way?

 

[joec]

If you're an Android user, you're going to find this completely unhelpful. But CarPlay (with Hey, Siri) works perfectly for me.

Once Android Auto ships (soon?), you'll have a much better voice option as well.

If you are accustomed to using your voice to pick music, this is the current state of affairs. Hey Lucid is an infant. There will be growing pains, for sure. I do think it will get better though.

I generally listen to podcasts, which is super easy, since I just continue whatever I was listening to on my phone via CarPlay and run through my queue. For music, I tend to listen to complete albums, so I don't mind hunting through my collection to find an album every 40-60 minutes. If you like picking tunes as you go, yeah, the current interfaces aren't super great. I know Apple Music has a feature where you can pick one song, then start a "station" based on that song. I assume Tidal and Spotify have a similar feature? That way, the algorithm picks for you.

I know that's not super helpful.

 

[gmglass]

CarPlay : Apple Music or Sirus XM

 

[beardad]

Thanks. Kind of what I figured. I'm Android so I suppose I'm SOL for now (would have been nice to delay removing Alexa).

On the plus side my kids love to ask Hey Lucid to play a song and see what random thing it will play instead (usually something explicit).